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Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list. ↗


— Jerry Pournelle


#best #best-seller #even #had #i

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. ↗


— Colin Powell


#digital #digital world #experience #find #listen

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. ↗


— Lisa Marie Presley


#bit #darker #drawn #his #i

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him. ↗


— Billy Preston


#corner #day #eased #first #first time

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found. ↗


— Alan Price


#dig #else #everything #found #i

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed. ↗


— Ronald Reagan


#attention #convinced #downturn #economic #enough

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously. ↗


— Harry Reasoner


#journalist #live #lot #other #people

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. ↗


— Helen Reddy


#audience #because #being #being ignored #bulk

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour. ↗


— Eddie Redmayne


#always #behaviour #doing #entertainment #hopefully

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. ↗


— Henry Reed


#chemical #chemical reactions #hearing #listening #only






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